Open Arms Author:Marina Endicott Open Arms is a contemporary quest story set in Saskatoon and featuring a protagonist whose spirit is as strong as her heart is broken. Seventeen-year-old Bessie Smith Connolly, the daughter of a rock-singer mother and absentee poet father, must navigate grief and betrayal, making her way through her exploded family and out into the world. — Open ... more »Arms was a finalist for the 2002 Amazon-Books in Canada First Novel Award and broadcast on CBC Radio's Between the Covers.« less